DTD Mini Festival: Day 1 - Interactive

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Matthew Wadham, 11,000, obviously enthralled by the witterings of former GUKPT runner upper Peter Charalambous.

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A resplendent Daniel Longden, chip buttied by Fran Creed and Greek Jack.

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Pinker than Mr Blobby, this chap we believe is Richard Sherwood, although there has been a changing of the guards at that table. Whoever it is, he's enjoyed a lucrative start with 17,000 in chips.

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Cool Afros aplenty...please use some of your photoshop skills Snoops & Dana

Here's Phil Spector with the finest afro

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Two seats along are Matthew Buckland and a rather mardy mustardy Nicky Evans, the latter of whom has 9,800 on the felt.

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Finally, for now, we have Ashton Philips, who I believe attended last month's £300er. He's currently on 9,500 and sharing a table with messieurs Jonas and Dempsey.

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Setbackaments for Flushy.

With the board reading , he checked over to Steve "cardshark on blonde" Read, who bet a whopping 3.5k. "What the hell?" said Flushy. "Come on James," said Read, "You know you want some." After a short pause for thought, it turned out that Read was right and Flushy did indeed 'want some'. "I'm just curious," said he. 

Flushy called, and just mucked when Read turned over . There was some eye-rolling shortly afterwards.

Photo to follow because Snoopy walked off with the camera, sorry.

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Fran Creed is off to a rather good start - she's up to 15.7k after playing just two hands, one of them Aces. Lucky Fran. That's the best hand you can have, you know.

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By the way, after knocking out Tony Nicholls, Mr Marc Goodwin moved to my current Table Of Doom. Table also currently features Joe Grech, Trevor Reardon, Alan Stern, Peter Charalambous and Paul Jackson, among others.

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Adam Wilkinson was indeed that first exit, and it was Richard Sherwood opening the door and walking him to his car. On what was either the third or fourth hand of the day, Adam and Richard both saw a a flop of 2-4-5, only for Adam to push all in on the ten turn. Holding A-3 for the flopped straight, Richard called quicker than a hiccup and simply had to avoid a house-filling river against the flopped set of Adam's 4-4. A blank on the river, and Adam was gone.

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James Harries, also a dealer - although of antiques I think rather than cards - now Lauren Harris.

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Albert Sapiano is OUT. He was all in with T-8 against Sid Harris' K-K on a 2-8-3 flop. 4 turn and 3 river was of no use.

Of course, Albert made a sharp exit for the door to rejoin his wife back home, and NOT join the latest cash table as these fraudulent photos suggest.

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74 of 78 players remain.
£58,500 total prize pool
Leve 2: 50/100
Average stack = 10,540
1st prize = £20,475

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On a board and with 1,100 in the pot, Rick Trigg took a pot off Gareth Teatum with a bet of 600. This bumped Rick's stack up to 11,000, whilst Gareth's continues to drop and is now down to a platry 2,700. I can only assume that the rest of his stack went to Michael Lee (pictured), who is easily the chip leader on that table whilst everyone else seems to be hovering around their starting stack.

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Tales from Table Andreou...

The garrulous, so-good-they-named-him-twice Andrew Andreou called me over to complain that Snoops and I must be doing no work at all owing to us having missed two hands on his table. He filled me in.

Jon Lundy is a bit short after getting half his chips in preflop - there was a raise utg and a re-raise, which Lundy flat-called with pocket Kings. The flop came down Q-7-2 or Q-7-9 depending on who you talk to, and the gent in seat 7 whose name I do not know led out for 2,000 into a 4,500 pot. Lundy insta-folded.

I like this photo a lot:



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Further tales of the unexpected. Mr Andreou informs me that the reason he has over 20k currently is that he and Ben Callinan saw a Kx flop - Andreou was holding 9-J, Callinan was holding , and no more spades appeared. This may explain the ludicrously good mood that Mr Andreou is in. He drew a happy face on my notepad and ordered me to emulate it for the rest of the day.

Mr Callinan:

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